Burton History Trees

Specialties

Burton History Trees is the exclusive licensee of Bruce Burton’s artwork. Presently, there are 17 titles available as lithographs framed or rolled in tubes:

Sports:

Chicago White Sox, Cubs, Bears, Blackhawks

Green Bay Packers

Universities of Illinois, Michigan, Notre Dame and Northwestern Football

Music:

Nineties, Eighties, Seventies, Sixties, Blues, Heavy Metal, British, and American Rock

A Burton History Tree is a one of a kind piece of art. The tree tells a story and history unfolds before your eyes. The concept is unprecedented, and it is an essential piece of memorabilia for the music lover’s art collection.

Everything you may have ever wanted to know about your favorite musical genre is pieced together due to Burton’s critical thought, labor, patience and love for music.

A Burton History Tree is like an art history course for rockers and sports fanatics!

History

Established in 2007.

We are a team of Chicagoans with diverse backgrounds, interests and professions with one thing in common; a fascination with the Burton History Tree. At all different points in our lives we were individually exposed to Bruce Burton’s art. Based on our collective obsession of Sports and Music, we all felt compelled to help make Burton History Trees a successful venture by introducing this to a mass audience of like-​minded fans.

Eric Fine, the Founder and leader of this team, has an entrepreneurial zest and insatiable passion for Bruce Burton as an artist. Eric first met Bruce in the early 1990’s when Bruce was his high school swim coach. At the time, Eric did not know that Bruce was a talented artist. However, Eric realized that he had been exposed to Burton’s History Trees years earlier at the restaurant formerly known as Bones in Lincolnwood, Illinois. Long story short, after Bruce and Eric developed a strong friendship spanning fifteen years, in 2007 Eric felt compelled to partne

Meet the Business Owner

Eric F.

Business Owner

I have pursued a life in the service of good people, excellent products and remarkable ideas.

My earliest working days were at Chalet Nursery in Wilmette, IL. Larry Thalman III rolled the dice on a nerdy looking 14 year old who just got cut from the Freshman High School Baseball Team.

I went to the University of Illinois (Urbana) where I studied Hospitality Management under the direction of Beth Reutter (yes, she is Katherine’s mom) and Jim Painter where I interned for Ben Pao and Wildfire Restaurants (Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises).

I then joined Charlie Trotter’s, a world-​renowned restaurant in Chicago’s Lincoln Park before jumping up the supply chain to one of his distributors, Chicagoland Beverage Company (CBC). While servicing a Who’s Who list of Chicago Hospitality at CBC, I worked in their Warehouse, Purchasing and Customer Experience departments.